With the long awaited Ethereum Merge successfully executed last month, we caught up with Vitalik at DevCon in Bogota to talk shop: How does he see the state of the network, does he think looming centralization is a threat. Was Ethereum's danksharding plus third party layer 2s a good architecture decision? How much of an issue is MEV?

Topics covered in this episode:

The state of the network and credible neutrality
Should validators have agency?
How much of a problem is MEV
The Ethereum Surge
The road to Danksharding
Decentralizing the sequencer
The future of the space
The one most important thing we need to get right in the coming year for the ecosystem to succeed

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This episode is hosted by Friederike Ernst. Show notes and listening options: epicenter.tv/467

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